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British police said Tuesday they were investigating violent and sexually explicit Twitter postings directed at a lawmaker in a growing row over threats to women on the social network.

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Stella Creasy, an MP with the opposition Labour party, faced
a stream of abuse after supporting a feminist activist who was targeted for
campaigning for an image of novelist Jane Austen to appear on banknotes.

Another lawmaker said she too was receiving a barrage of
offensive messages, while a man has been arrested and bailed over rape threats
to feminist campaigner Caroline Criado-Perez.

"This isn't about Twitter, this is about hatred of
women and hatred of women who speak up," Creasy told BBC radio on Monday.

"Twitter needs to be explicit that sexual violence and
sexual aggression will not be tolerated as part of their user terms and
conditions."

High-profile women in Britain have long complained of online
harassment but the issue reached front pages after Criado-Perez said she
received "about 50 abusive tweets an hour for about 12 hours" last
week.

Scotland Yard said Tuesday that police had received an
allegation from an MP about "malicious communications" over comments
on Twitter.

Creasy retweeted a series of tweets that included threats
from accounts named "killcreasynow" and "eatcreasynow",
which have now been suspended.

She said she was reporting the abuse to both Twitter and
police.

Lawmaker Claire Perry, from Prime Minister David Cameron's
Conservative Party, likewise retweeted a string of message including threats of
sexual violence and one that read, "please disappear into obscurity and/or
alcoholism. or die, whatever."

"I am tempted to shut down my Twitter account given the
trolling going on incl. to me – but that would be giving in," Perry
tweeted.

Perry has been advising Cameron on his plans to introduce an
"opt-in" system for blocking Internet pornography.

The abuse to Criado-Perez sparked a huge outcry among
Twitter users and prompted more than 60 000 people to sign an online
petition demanding the network introduce a "report abuse" button and
review its rules on abusive behaviour.

Twitter has introduced a report button on tweets in its
iPhone app and plans to bring it to other platforms.

But some users say the form to which it links is too complex
and time-consuming for those receiving a barrage of abusive tweets.

In a blog post titled ‘We Hear You’, Twitter said on Monday:
"We are not blind to the reality that there will always be people using
Twitter in ways that are abusive and may harm others".

Del Harvey, senior director for trust and safety, wrote that
manual reviewing of all tweets was not possible as 400 million of the
140-character messages are sent each day around the world.

But it said it used both automated and manual systems to
assess reports of users violating its rules, which bar "direct, specific
threats of violence against others".

Police on Sunday arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of
sending malicious communications to Criado-Perez, whose banknote campaign
culminated Wednesday in the announcement Jane Austen would feature on the £10
note from 2017.

The Bank of England had previously announced changes that would
have left Queen Elizabeth II as the only woman represented.

Concerns have been raised that a quicker "report
abuse" function on Twitter could be open to misuse by those wishing to
silence other users.